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Homicides Last 12 months 54 Through
February 04
Average Homicides 2020 to 2022 34
Per year
Homicide Rate Last 12 months 25.9
Per 100,000 people
Average Homicide Rate 2020 to 2022 16.4
Per 100,000 people
Homicides over the last 12 months are trending up
58.8% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from
Fayetteville Police Department.
The murder rate over the last 12 months is up 57% compared
to the annual average over the last three years.
One way to think about the danger: in 2019, the murder rate was
11 per 100,000 residents. That’s less than the likelihood of
someone dying in a vehicle crash in North Carolina. In fact, the risk of
homicide remains much lower than most other leading causes of death in
the state.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
ABC11’s data team looked at the Fayetteville Police Department’s data
by neighborhood from 2019 through February 04, 2024. ABC11’s citywide
and police zone counts are based on the police department’s open data of
every police incident, which is updated daily and published online.
Because the city’s data is based on incident reports, some cases may not
be counted yet. Murders, for example, are included in the data later
than other types of crimes.
A closer look at homicides by police district
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the
last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the
murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.
You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons
at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.
You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to
that location.
A note about Fayetteville Police Department data and these
pages: Statistics here count every incident in police data. Methodology
for some government reports of crimes tabulates only the most severe
incident if two crimes are reported as part of the same incident. For
example, a homicide and a burglary will get counted in some crime totals
as one incident of the most serious crime. Modern FBI methodology would
count each incident as an individual crime, so it would count as a
burglary and as a homicide. That is how the city data records incidents
and how these pages and charts tabulate crimes.